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aabdiyesterday at 2:35 PM3 repliesview on HN

> You were never expected to understand every service and every database. But at least someone did and would explain it to you.

I agree with most of this except this. Think there’s some rose tinted glasses here or I’ve got bad luck over time.

Life before ai was bad as well. There wasn’t any one to explain to you anything! You had to figure it out yourself. The people either already left or was busy with something else.

No one wrote tests (to my standard). Most of the ops works was skipped. Docs were just not there. Nobody linted properly. Just bad mannnn


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Kurajyesterday at 5:14 PM

If there is any positive to be had from this, it's that we finally started documenting the codebases for AI as we should have always done it for other teammates.

estetlinusyesterday at 5:39 PM

+1

the vpn is called dev-test-prod and some containers are stored in a dev subscription, but still used in production. Some intangible network error forces you to use the production cluster for testing (the bucket is at least called test).

I feel this kind of setup is invariant everywhere I go to do engineering. Fable level intelligence has no effect!

uncivilizedyesterday at 4:28 PM

It’s just the typical BS where a Hacker News wants to feel smarter than they are